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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jung begin to confront about his father when he was integrating his fantasies with his interest in alchemy?

2. Where does Jung say giants come from?

3. What does the Kabala draw correlations between?

4. What did Jung find when his wife died, and his children were all grown up?

5. How does Jung say science can evaluate the idea of life after death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jung say about moral judgments?

2. How did Jung confront his father's thinking as he grew older?

3. Where did Jung travel to in order to research his philosophy of psychology?

4. What was Jung's feeling about his wife's death?

5. What two influences did Jung begin to see life in terms of after his wife's death?

6. What was the significance of the tower on Jung's house?

7. What influence does Jung attribute to the devil?

8. How do the Hindu or Buddhist ideas of reincarnation affect Jung?

9. What was the state of alchemy when Jung began to study it?

10. Where does Jung say giants come from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jung know what he knows? Particularly in the discussion of the afterlife, he draws distinctions between what can be known and what cannot. What is the source of Jung's knowledge? What authorizes him to know what he knows?

Essay Topic 2

Jung attributes a great deal of power to his daimon, his unconscious. How does he use these terms? Are they the same, or is there a difference? Cite specific examples from the text to distinguish these terms.

Essay Topic 3

How does Jung see Christianity, now that he has explored his unconscious? Did his early ideas stand up to his experience, and turn into his mature views, or did they change under pressure from overwhelming experiences?

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